63 m. ago Trump doubles down on defense of ICE shooting but admits: ‘I don’t like that happening’

President Donald Trump said deceased mother-of-three Renee Nicole Good was ‘obviously, a professional agitator’ in Truth Social post reacting to tragedy on streets of Minneapolis

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91 m. ago Donald Trump's White House announces unexpected Press Conference after Minnesota shooting

The White House issued a change to the daily schedule, with a press briefing added. It follows fury over the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman by an ICE agent in Minnesota

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1 hour ago Russian drone strikes cause major blackouts in two regions of Ukraine

Russian drone strikes have knocked out power in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region and left over 600,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk without electricity

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2 h. ago Trump doubles down on defending federal agent who killed Minneapolis woman as more ICE protests planned across US – live

Donald Trump repeated his claims that the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good acted in self-defense; DHS secretary Kristi Noem expected to speak in New YorkSince early December, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations – many of them masked and brandishing rifles – have grabbed people at hardware stores and gyms, or outside homes and schools around the cities.They have violently tackled undocumented immigrants as well as US citizens, including advocates and protestors. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Donald Trump DOES send planes over British Greenland after locals warn President to stay away

The US has sent war planes to John O'Groats airport, just a stone's throw from Greenland in Scotland. Pictures of the aircraft emerged just hours after worried residents warned Trump against invading their village.

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2 h. ago Scots MPs urge Keir Starmer to stand up to Donald Trump on Greenland

The SNP’s Brendan O’Hara and Labour’s Brian Leishman have warned that not standing up to the USA would be “dangerous”.

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3 h. ago ICE agents have killed – again. The Trump administration blames the victim | Moira Donegan

An agent shot a woman in Minneapolis, causing vast and needless grief. Our country is diseased – but that is not the only truthA woman in Minneapolis has died as her neighbors fought Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation. On Wednesday morning, a group of local civilian protesters gathered around a site where several ICE agents were attempting to abduct migrants. The agents were part of a surge of roughly 2,000 deportation officers who have been sent to Minneapolis as part of Trump’s effort to persecute the Somali community there. In a disturbing incident caught on video by multiple onlookers, a woman driving in an SUV covered in bumper stickers blocked traffic on the residential road – perhaps as part of an effort to keep ICE vehicles from passing. In the videos, an ICE agent approaches the SUV, yelling: “Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car.” He stands at the driver’s side, with his feet clear of the vehicle, and reaches into where the woman is driving. She begins to ...

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4 h. ago MPs demand USA is kicked out of World Cup over Donald Trump 'lawbreaking'

Twenty-one MPs have signed a motion demanding FIFA expels the USA from the summer's World Cup - saying Trump's Venezuela strike broke international law and must have consequences

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4 h. ago PM faces call to rule out use of British bases if US attacks Greenland

US officials have said they could use ‘military means’ to ‘acquire’ the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

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4 h. ago Trump’s condemnation of Jan 6 rioters resurfaces after White House tries to ‘rewrite history’

A video of Donald Trump condemning the January 6 rioters in 2021 as “heinous” has resurfaced after his administration has been accused of attempting to rewrite history.

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4 h. ago France’s Macron warns US under Trump is ‘turning away’ from allies – Europe live

French president warned the US under Donald Trump was ‘breaking free from international rules’Another news line dominating this week’s coverage of European politics is to do with Greenland, and the US president Donald Trump’s ambitions to somehow take control of the Danish semiautonomous territory.The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said last night that he had plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland as a crisis escalates within Nato over US threats to take over the Arctic territory. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Donald Trump's Scottish course 'proved itself' as DP World Tour venue

Summer slot left open on 2026 schedule expected to be an event at Trump International Golf Links

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5 h. ago German president warns world must not turn into ‘den of robbers’ in Trump rebuke

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has criticised the U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump

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5 h. ago Venezuela cooperating fully and US will control its oil for years, claims Trump

US president says Delcy Rodríguez’s interim administration is doing ‘everything that we feel is necessary’ The US is receiving full cooperation from Venezuela’s regime and will control the country and its vast oil reserves for years, Donald Trump has claimed.Caracas was giving Washington “everything that we feel is necessary” and the US would remain a political overlord there for an indefinite period, the US president said. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Venezuela cooperating fully and US will control its oil for years, Trump claims

US president says Delcy Rodríguez’s interim administration is doing ‘everything that we feel is necessary’ The US is receiving full cooperation from Venezuela’s regime and will control the country and its vast oil reserves for years, Donald Trump has claimed.Caracas was giving Washington “everything that we feel is necessary” and the US would remain a political overlord there for an indefinite period, the US president said. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago 'We were screaming for help': How Venezuelans in London feel about Maduro's capture

Donald Trump’s operation in Venezuela has shocked the world – but the news was greeted with cautious celebration by exiles from the Maduro regime in London

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5 h. ago Dense, sticky and heavy: why Venezuela’s oil is valuable to Trump – video explainer

The Venezuelan oil industry is ‘a total bust’ according to Donald Trump, something he has promised to ‘fix’ after attacking Caracas and seizing the country’s leader. But with analysts estimating it could take up to 14 years and billions to fix, what is in it for the US president? Jillian Ambrose, the Guardian’s energy correspondent, explains why Venezuela’s dense, sticky oil is so valuable to Trump Continue reading...

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5 h. ago UN risks becoming ‘completely obsolete’ in wake of US strikes on Venezuela, experts warn

Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela and threats towards Greenland have upended the ‘rules based order’ - and left nations scrabbling for how to respond

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5 h. ago Danish forces will ‘shoot first and ask questions later’ if Greenland is invaded amid US threats

The White House said this week that Donald Trump was still weighing military intervention as an option to take over Greenland

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5 h. ago With Venezuela, Trump has achieved his dream of making his own 80s action movie

Given his rise during the ego joyride of the 1980s, it’s no shock that Trump’s foreign policy is to emulate that decade’s belligerent cinemaThe box office barnstormer of 2026 arrived early this year. A sleazy banana-republic dictator flooding the American streets with blow. The over-the-border Delta Force extraction squad sent to pluck this schmo out of his impregnable fortress. The bronzed tough-talker who’s firing an RPG up the tailpipe of the international rules-based order – but who gets the job done. Call it: Caracas Thunder.Sounds like a bit of a throwback, you might be thinking. But, judging by his press conference after the US military’s abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump seemed to have finally achieved his dream of directing his own 80s action movie. Continue reading...

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